#787 Burnout - Dr. Guy Winch
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Guy Winch is a psychologist and bestselling author who advocates for integrating the science of emotional health into our daily lives. He and Paul talk about the science of burnout and offer insights and practical tips for managing burnout--and avoiding it altogether. For more, look for his new book Mind Over Grind: How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 787 with my return guest, Dr. Guy Wynch. |
| 0:05.4 | My name's Paul. |
| 0:07.0 | If you're new to the podcast, welcome. |
| 0:08.6 | I hope you find this to be a place for honesty. |
| 0:13.0 | That's what we strive for. |
| 0:15.3 | Just reminder, I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:18.0 | And these are my own opinions. |
| 0:20.4 | And the opinions of my guests are their own |
| 0:23.6 | opinions um the website for this show is metalpod.com and metalpod is the social media handle |
| 0:30.9 | that you can follow us at and if you want to support the podcast financially you can do it via PayPal or Patreon. |
| 0:39.3 | And with Patreon for as little as a dollar a month, you can get different tier rewards. |
| 0:46.5 | And one of them is access to bonus podcasts every other week. |
| 0:51.2 | And that's at the $5 a month level and above. |
| 0:54.7 | The $20 a month level, we have a Zoom hangout weekly, one for U.S. time zone on Sunday |
| 1:03.2 | afternoons, 4 o'clock Pacific time, and Saturday mornings, European time. |
| 1:10.8 | We do one for some nice European people. |
| 1:15.5 | There's something so cool about it. |
| 1:18.4 | There's usually about six of us and from a variety of countries. |
| 1:25.1 | One person from Turkey, another person from Sweden, two people from |
| 1:30.9 | Austria. One is dual citizenship, UK and Austria. And two people from France. One is originally American. The other is British. And I'm sure I'm |
| 1:49.2 | forgetting some. And it's just such a cool vibe feeling that connection to the world, which, you know, the support groups that I go to |
| 2:06.5 | in person here, there's definitely a feeling of camaraderie and shared struggle. |
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